Football: Kane on target as Tottenham ease to win at Brighton

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND (REUTERS) – Tottenham Hotspur saved themselves within the hunt for a top-four end within the Premier League with targets by Cristian Romero and Harry Kane bagging a 2-0 win at out-of-form Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday (March 16).

A dismal first half on a wet night time on the south coast was virtually devoid of goalmouth motion till central defender Romero deflected in Dejan Kulusevski’s shot within the thirty seventh minute to open his account for the membership.

Tottenham have been far brighter than their hosts within the second half and doubled the lead with a textbook counter-attack rounded off by Kane’s unerring end within the 57th minute.

It was Kane’s ninety fifth objective in 139 look away from house within the Premier League, taking him previous Wayne Rooney with whom he had beforehand shared the document.

Brighton failed to actually bother Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris as they slumped to a sixth successive league defeat though they’re nicely away from relegation bother.

Victory lifted Antonio Conte’s Tottenham above Wolverhampton Wanderers into seventh place with 48 factors, degree with West Ham United who they’ve one sport in hand on.

Tottenham, who host West Ham on Sunday, are three factors behind fourth-placed Arsenal who misplaced 2-0 at house to title-chasing Liverpool. Arsenal have performed one sport much less.

“We got ahead in the game and then I think we controlled it. Overall, it was a really good night away from home,” Kane stated.

“Sometimes you need a bit of luck to go your way to break the deadlock and that’s what happened and from there we controlled it.”

There was actually a big slice of fortune about Tottenham’s opening objective.

A relatively languid transfer, in step with a boring first half, ended up with Kulusevski lastly having a shot at objective and the ball glanced the leg of the lurking Romero to wrong-foot Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez.

Tottenham’s second was medical.

Brighton have been really having fun with their greatest spell of the sport however when a transfer broke down, Rodrigo Bentancur’s incisive go launched Kane who had timed his run to perfection.

The England captain drilled a shot low inside Sanchez’s close to publish earlier than the keeper had time to set himself.

It was Kane’s 178th Premier League objective, taking him previous Frank Lampard into fifth place on the all-time checklist.

Tottenham may have prolonged their lead late on with Kane having a penalty attraction turned down and organising Sergio Reguilon whose shot was saved.

It was the proper response to a 3-2 defeat by fifth-placed Manchester United on the weekend and Conte challenged his gamers to maintain the stress on within the top-four battle.

“It’s a difficult target, to reach fourth place is not simple but I feel we are ready to fight in every game,” the Italian stated. “On Sunday we have a crucial game against West Ham and they have the same target as us.”

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